New GB Map Errors!

pottsy · Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 9:07 am Post subject:

All the errors I reported last summer are still there. I was really hoping that I'd spent money to get out of the mess, but no, I've been done. My old Garmin has more accurate maps than this latest release from Tomtom.

pottsy · Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 10:59 am Post subject:

For example, this error not fixed (fixed by Garmin in their 2003 map release)...

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=54438&highlight=map#54438

marctwo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 13, 2004 Posts: 22

ssnw1610 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 13, 2005 Posts: 8

In case anyone is forming the view that the 'new' map contains no updates whatsoever, I can confirm that the most glaring omission in my locality has been updated. This relates to the interchange between the A127 and a new stretch of the A130 near Rayleigh, Essex.

I'm not saying this justifies the £61.32.....

neil01 · Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 11:26 am Post subject:

I think that it should be a legal requirement for all software to display both the supplier of the maps, and the date they were originally compiled by that supplier - both on the CD and prominently on the outside of the packaging. I am sure that this would help ensure that we have more up-to-date maps. At least we could have some idea of what should have been, and what doesn't have a cat in hells chance of being updated. It seems to me that too much time and effort is being spent on the software at the expense of the maps. What they need to remember is that without accurate maps the application is useless.

alix776 · Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 11:28 pm Post subject:

guys due to the way ditgital maps are produced and the fact that the errors may need to visually check by a surveying team all of which takes time. it can upto 2 years for map errors and new roads to be included in new maps this is nothing to do with tomtom and they have no control over how quick errors are fixed this in tomtoms case would be down to teleatlas i would suggest that any errors are sent to them and they should be fixed it time
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Wishlist · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 160

Evilution · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 61

Tomtom, give us the mapping software and we'll sort the maps out our bloody selves.
Digital cartography is easy once the base has been set, you get the standard paper map from O/S or tele atlas and it is just plotted in, you don't even have to go to the road anymore.

No excuse, just money grabbing.

pottsy · Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 1:19 am Post subject:

mow · Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 9:03 am Post subject:

clivers · Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 10:37 am Post subject:

[quote]guys due to the way ditgital maps are produced and the fact that the errors may need to visually check by a surveying team all of which takes time. it can upto 2 years for map errors and new roads to be included in new maps this is nothing to do with tomtom and they have no control over how quick errors are fixed this in tomtoms case would be down to teleatlas i would suggest that any errors are sent to them and they should be fixed it time

2 years i think is absolute rubbish. AA navigator which uses NAVTEQ maps has new roads that were put on the original release i purchased in december.

no matter how good a piece of software is, its no good with outdated maps. i shall instead now be looking for the NAVTEQ on board symbol on anything else i shall purchase. garmin of course use NAVTEQ and may well start to take some market share from TT with the C320 which is already priced very close to the GO300 on the comet website..
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joedavid0 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 12, 2005 Posts: 23

quote]guys due to the way ditgital maps are produced and the fact that the errors may need to visually check by a surveying team all of which takes time. it can upto 2 years for map errors and new roads to be included in new maps this is nothing to do with tomtom and they have no control over how quick errors are fixed this in tomtoms case would be down to teleatlas i would suggest that any errors are sent to them and they should be fixed it time ...

"...nothing to do with TT... Of course it as, TT have choosen to use TeleAtlas and will have a contract with them and pay them. We choose to buy TT thus TT are again responsable to us.
TT want £61 from me for a UK map upgrade which on this forum I read has little or no changes and the maps are 2 years out of date.
TT need to get thier supplier TeleAtlas sorted out, refund the £61 paid to them by customers allready, and contact us all again when a real upgrade is ready.
To me TT are acting like the firms one sees on BBC WatchDog.
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Dipstick · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 27, 2005 Posts: 32

If you want to get one over on Tom Tom why not send me the Great_Britain.Postal file.

Best Wishes

Keith@simpson55.wanadoo.co.uk

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Oldboy · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 6:20 am Post subject:

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